Line edit report
Finds the adverbs, filler, filter words, passive constructions, repeated openers and echoed phrases that a line editor would mark.
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which is the only sensible arrangement for an unpublished manuscript.
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The count
0
Words
0
Things marked
AdverbsWords ending in ly0
Fillerjust, very, really, actually0
Filter wordssaw, felt, noticed, realised0
Possible passives0
Sentences over 30 words0
Repeated openersParagraphs starting the same way0
How to read this
None of these are errors. An adverb in the right place is doing work. The number
beside each one only tells you how often you reach for the same move, and reaching for it
forty times in a chapter is the thing a reader notices.
Filter words put a narrator between the reader and the scene.
She saw the door open is one step further away than
the door opened, and a chapter of them reads like a report.
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